{"id":285,"date":"2007-02-23T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/index.php\/2007\/02\/23\/unsaturated-news-fried\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T21:25:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T03:25:25","slug":"unsaturated-news-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/02\/unsaturated-news-fried\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsaturated News, Fried"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodents must be multilingual to survive in New York City, but they are prone to mistakes, too. Here’s the latest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

NEW YORK — A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC\/Taco Bell restaurant early today, running between counters and tables and climbing on children’s high chairs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

America’s most famous city recently banned trans fats from its restuarants.<\/p>\n

The critter population was relieved that liberal Gotham didn’t ban trans rats. -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rodents must be multilingual to survive in New York City, but they are prone to mistakes, too. Here’s the latest: NEW YORK — A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC\/Taco Bell restaurant early today, running between counters and tables and climbing on children’s high chairs.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-spin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":321,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/05\/almanac-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":285,"position":0},"title":"Almanac You","author":"Ben S. 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